ORIGINATING NEW VARIETIES. 115 
growing in Europe, producing a mass of loose leaves. 
If he should succeed in doing so, he would approach 
the skill of the prehistorics in plant-breeding. 
Naming New Varieties.—The first thing in order 
after the production of a new variety is to give it a 
name or an appropriate title. 
There is no good reason why the originator or dis- 
coverer of a variety should not use his own name, 
Latinized or otherwise, in making up a title to be 
adopted; some such form of title renders it easier to 
settle identification should controversy (as has hap- 
pened) arise thereafter in the trade. And why, in case 
an individual name be preferred, should the introducer 
instead of the originator, if they be not one and the 
same, appropriate an honor that belongs to discovery ? 
But if it be preferred to form a name which shall 
represent the character or type of the plant itself, let it 
be purely descriptive, as for instance, Stringless Green 
pod beans, White Spine cucumber, Long Scarlet radish, 
Early Red-top Globe turnip. The name of a country 
may always be used to good effect, such as Early York: 
cabbage, Long White Vienna radish. Avoid using 
superfluous high-sounding adjectives, 
